Word: fragmentism
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...most interesting of these papyri is a fragment--marked 2211 in the collection--which Professor Blass attributes to Alcman. It contains seven hexameter lines, of remarkable beauty. A translation of the only four lines which are complete...
Another very valuable fragment is no doubt a schoolboy's exercise, written in an unformed hand with a few mistakes in spelling. It consists of the first seven verses of the first chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. It was written probably about 316 A.D., judging from external and internal evidence. The number in the Museum...
Number 2224 is a fragment of the first or second century, in a much mutilated condition, containing parts of Homer's Odyssey, lines 366, 367, 373-380, and 389-402 of the tenth book...
...Fragment 2223 is an agreement for the sale of a young female donkey, at the very low price of fifty-six drachmae. The date...
...Another fragment, number 2219, is a complaint from a weaver of Oxyrhynchus, to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Pasion, because Apoliophanes, a tax-collector, had extorted sixteen drachmae from...